Page 61 of Waiting for Sunshine

Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to go home and plan Lauren’s party but I could easily stay here with Max all day. As soon as I toss my phone down on the bed and turn around, Max is standing over me ready to sweep me off the ground. He wraps my legs around his middle, hands planted firmly on my ass.

“Any plans today, Sunshine?” he asks, his deep voice something I’ll never tire of hearing.

“Actually, yes.” I say, scrunching my nose.

“It better be staying in bed with me all day.” He teases, nipping at my neck.

“Mmm. I wish I could,believe me.But Taylor, Leah and I are planning Lauren’s surprise party today while she’s in back to back showings at work.” He lets out a heavy sigh, leaning his head back to look at me.

“Then I guess I’ll make this quick.” He says, tossing me back on his bed before pulling his shirt off over his head.

Everything he does has me squeezing my thighs together. He slides his pants off next before climbing back on the bed with me.

“Don’t rush on my account,” I say, biting my lip.

He lowers his head, settling between my thighs, then spends the next hour making me wish I never had to leave his bedroom. When we finally manage to get dressed and out of the house I insist Max takes me home in his truck instead of the bike. Because if I learned anything last night, it’s that motorcycles and mini skirts are not the best idea in the world.

CHAPTER29

MAX

“How’s party planning?”I ask, as Shane and I walk out of the coffee shop and toward the gym the next morning.

“Oh my god,” she grumbles.

“That good?” I tease. She takes a sip of her iced coffee and laughs.

“It’s really not so bad. We want to make her feel special so we’re pulling out all the stops, but it’s turning out to be a lot more work than I realized.” I reach down and wrap my fingers around hers as we walk down the sidewalk.

“Well, I’m sure it’s going to be great. Lauren is lucky to have a friend like you. And Taylor and Leah too I guess.” I wink at her, making her blush as we walk hand in hand into the gym. We walk in to see Tucker already there waiting for us.

“You know, I’m starting to get offended that you guys never bring me a coffee.” He says, crossing his arms over his chest.

“Tucker, you’re 37 years old. Get your own damn coffee.” I lean down and kiss Shane’s forehead before heading to put my stuff in a locker.

“What do you like?” I hear her whisper as I walk off. This woman. Heart of pure gold. I don’t listen for Tucker’s answer because my mind is too focused on how I got so lucky to have Shane show up in my life.

“Sorry, I’m late!” Leah comes walking in with her own coffee and Tucker tosses his hands in the air making Shane and I both laugh.

“What? What did I do?” Leah asks, wide eyed.

“Nothing, just Tucker pouting.” I tell her as I slap Tucker with my gym towel.

“Come on, let’s start our warm up.” Shane locks her arm with Leah’s and they go over to the treadmills to warm up while Tucker and I start on the pull up bars. By the end of the workout we’re all dripping sweat and starving. At least I assume so by the way Shane’s stomach is growling.

“Showers then Spurs?” Tucker asks.

“God, yes.” Shane eagerly agrees.

“Okay, meet you ladies back out here in ten.” Tucker says and we head to the showers.

We go to the diner and stuff our faces, having the most random conversations you could imagine. Leah has started joining us at the gym regularly and we’ve just kind of made it a routine to come to Spurs after to eat. Today’s topic of conversation revolved around Lauren’s birthday party in a couple of weeks, which brought up a very forgettable name.

“Okay, but I just really don’t understand why he wouldtellpeople he has a pet turtle, ya know? Like sir you aretwentyseven years old, not seven years old. Stop bragging about your turtle.” Leah says as she tosses a fry in her mouth.

“NamedDONATELLOno less!” Shane exclaims, making the whole table laugh.

“Yeah, I didn’t say anything about it then because we were still a little new to the group, but that dude was weird as hell.” Tucker says, picking up his sweet tea.

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